Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2023

Eight at the Gate Family Selection Chardonnay 2023
$38, 12.9% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

This wine is characterised by its long lines of elegant flavour. It tastes of wheat, bacon, stonefruit and apricot kernels, which might make it sound as if the fruit flavours themselves are lacking, but they’re not. It’s just that it feels seamless and complex in an easy-going way, the core of fruit inlaid with savouriness. It all works (very) nicely. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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